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		<title>The Left Wants To Remake America In Its Own Image</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Colorado and Vermont are unusually beautiful states renowned for scenery, skiing and, in Vermont’s case, cheese and ice cream.</p>
<p>These Democratic-dominated enclaves also attract weird and destructive people who somehow find their way into power. California does not have a monopoly on this.</p>
<p>How else to explain their ongoing war on free speech, common sense and Christianity? Colorado, which was slapped down by the U.S. Supreme Court for persecuting Christian cake baker Jack Phillips, went after him again before the state Supreme Court finally ruled in his favor.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/04/the-left-wants-to-remake-america-in-its-own-image/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SPLC: The Biggest Bully in The Room</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>The national parental rights group has again made the latest “hate map” of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the most prominent leftist smear machine outside of the legacy media itself.</p>
<p>Despite a scandal in 2019 that ousted its leadership, “SPLC annual revenue still reaches nine figures, and its assets are just shy of $700 million,” the Capital Research Center reports.</p>
<p>The Moms last year were designated partly because they supported reform-minded school board candidates who won elections.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/06/splc-the-biggest-bully-in-the-room/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Count America Out Just Yet</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/11/dont-count-america-out-just-yet-2023/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Just when you think it’s all over and that America has gone over the edge, some good things are happening.</p>
<p>Let’s start with the ascent of U.S. Representative <strong>Mike Johnson</strong> (R-LA) to Speaker of the U.S. House. This has stunned observers who thought that pro-life, pro-marriage, conservative Christians were forever barred from such offices thanks to the left’s takeover of virtually every major institution.</p>
<p>The Louisiana Republican is being assailed, of course.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/11/dont-count-america-out-just-yet-2023/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>U.S. Speaker Mike Johnson Actually Believes in 5,000 Years of Moral Clarity and Common Sense</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/10/u-s-speaker-mike-johnson-actually-believes-in-5000-years-of-moral-clarity-and-common-sense/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Allison Gordon]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>On Friday, Oct. 27, just hours after U.S. Representative <strong>Mike Johnson</strong> (D-LA) was elected speaker of the U.S. House by the unanimous vote of the Republican majority, CNN reporters <strong>Andrew Kaczynski</strong> and<strong> Allison Gordon</strong> posted the following: “Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has a history of harsh anti-gay language.”</p>
<p>They went on to cite several editorials Mr. Johnson wrote in the early 2000s, when he served as a constitutional attorney for the Alliance Defending Freedom, a coalition of lawyers that has more religious freedom victories before the U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/10/u-s-speaker-mike-johnson-actually-believes-in-5000-years-of-moral-clarity-and-common-sense/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Far Left&#8217;s Slander Machine</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Written by David E. Smith</span></em></p>
<p>We&#8217;ve all heard the story of &#8220;the boy who cried wolf,&#8221; but perhaps the modern version should be about &#8220;the organization that cried hater.&#8221;</p>
<p>The far left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has forged a reputation as a nationally outspoken advocate against &#8220;hate groups.&#8221; Founded in 1971 and based in Montgomery, Alabama, the SPLC is no stranger to controversy.  The group has long been accused of targeting conservative and Christian organizations.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/08/the-far-lefts-slander-machine/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The &#8216;Mainstream&#8217; Media&#8217;s Radical Rebellion Against God</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/07/the-mainstream-medias-radical-rebellion-against-god/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>The line between radical activism and &#8220;mainstream&#8221; journalism has been obliterated, especially when it comes to the LGBTQ+ lobbyists. The war on traditional Christianity is on. It was splashed all over the front page of the July 25 <em>USA Today</em>.</p>
<p>The headline above the photograph was &#8220;<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/how-a-christian-transgender-man-increased-his-faith-by-taking-the-fight-over-lgbtq-rights-to-religious-schools/ar-AA1egq3K" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christian transgender man says fighting LGBTQ+ discrimination has increased his faith.</a>&#8221; The big headline underneath was the trans man&#8217;s quote: &#8220;This is what I was supposed to be doing.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2023/07/the-mainstream-medias-radical-rebellion-against-god/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>SCOTUS Case of Colorado Web Designer Has Big Implications for Religious Liberty</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/03/scotus-case-of-colorado-web-designer-has-big-implications-for-religious-liberty/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2022 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Jorge Gomez</em></p>
<p>The U.S. Supreme Court recently announced it will hear <em>303 Creative LLC v. Elenis</em>, a free speech case that could have major implications for religious liberty. This is a case being handled by our friends at the <a href="https://adflegal.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alliance Defending Freedom</a>.</p>
<p>It involves <strong>Lorie Smith</strong>, a Christian web designer from the Denver-area who declines to create wedding websites for same-sex couples, because of her religious beliefs. The case is expected to be heard during the Court’s next term, which begins in October.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/03/scotus-case-of-colorado-web-designer-has-big-implications-for-religious-liberty/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Big Tech Crushes Hope For Change</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>While Big Tech’s Washington lobbyists fend off anti-trusters, Silicon Valley has not missed a beat in its “woke” censorship of views they don’t like.</p>
<p>COVID-19. Climate change. Vote fraud. Former President <strong>Donald Trump</strong>. Human sexuality. Whatever.</p>
<p>Toe their leftist line or get muzzled.</p>
<aside></aside>
<p>Last week, Google-owned YouTube blocked all videos on the <a href="https://www.reintegrativetherapy.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reintegrative Therapy Association</a> channel after a left-wing group in Alabama complained loudly about them and <em>Forbes</em> carried an article parroting the group’s report.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/01/how-big-tech-crushes-hope-for-change/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>You Shall Not Bake Cake And SCOTUS Packing (Illinois Family Spotlight #261)</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/you-shall-not-bake-cake-and-supreme-court-packing-illinois-family-spotlight-261/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 09:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>This week, Illinois Family Spotlight focuses on current issues regarding religious freedom and the U.S. judicial system. To start the podcast, Monte Larrick interviews well-known Colorado baker and cake artist, <strong>Jack Phillips </strong>and general counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, <strong>Kristen Waggoner</strong>. Phillips describes the persecution and targeting he has endured at the hands of the LGBT faction in his ongoing battle for religious freedom within the context of his business. In discussing the work of ADF, Waggoner speaks to the disturbing trend of “weaponization of our justice system to silence and to ruin people” who hold to different views regarding marriage and gender.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/podcast/you-shall-not-bake-cake-and-supreme-court-packing-illinois-family-spotlight-261/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Baker Jack Phillips &#8212; A Cultural Hero</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/06/baker-jack-phillips-a-cultural-hero/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Religious Liberty]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David Limbaugh</em></p>
<p>Colorado baker <strong>Jack Phillips</strong> is a perpetual offender. He simply will not do. His offense? Unswervingly honoring his deeply held, and constitutionally protected, religious beliefs.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve all heard of Phillips and his travails. Leftist bullies have been tormenting him for years, beginning in 2012, when the Colorado Civil Rights Commission targeted him for refusing to make a custom-designed cake to celebrate a same-sex wedding.</p>
<p>After several setbacks in various tribunals, Phillips was finally vindicated in a 7-to-2 U.S.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/06/baker-jack-phillips-a-cultural-hero/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stopping Communism One School District At A Time</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/06/stopping-communism-one-school-district-at-a-time/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2021 12:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>Once upon a time not so long ago, Loudoun County, Virginia, was the most conservative county in the Washington, D.C. metro area.</p>
<p>An exurb outside the Beltway with a high-tech corridor rivaling California’s Silicon Valley, plus the Washington Football team’s headquarters and Dulles Airport, Loudoun’s sprawling suburbia is supplanting farmland like super-charged kudzu.</p>
<p>The eastern part is home to more than 100 huge, gray “data centers,” through which more than 70 percent of the world’s Internet traffic flows. &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/06/stopping-communism-one-school-district-at-a-time/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2020 09:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Andrew Harrod</em></p>
<p>Former Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “staffers have admitted that the hate accusations leveled by the SPLC are a ‘con,’ a deceptive scheme to raise money,” writes PJ Media Senior Editor <strong><a href="https://pjmedia.com/columnist/tyler-o-neil/">Tyler O’Neil</a></strong>. In his new <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Making-Hate-Pay-Corruption-Southern/dp/1642934399">book</a>, <em>Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center</em>, O’Neil shreds the SPLC’s claims to be an impartial “hate arbiter” and exposes the SPLC as a corrupt, leftist smear merchant.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/04/the-southern-poverty-law-center-hate-hoax/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Surrendering to SPLC&#8217;s Lazy Media Lemmings</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Michelle Malkin</em></p>
<section id="article-body">ACT for America, a nationwide grassroots group that educates the public about radical Islam, was founded in 2007 by my vigilant activist friend and Lebanese Christian immigrant journalist Brigitte Gabriel. I was honored to accept Gabriel&#8217;s invitation to speak at her organization&#8217;s annual banquet at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 7.
<p>Gabriel has worked tirelessly to expose the Islamic imperialist agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic state; barbaric practices of female genital mutilation and honor killings by adherents of sharia; and the whitewashing of violent jihad in American middle school textbooks.</p>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/10/surrendering-to-splcs-lazy-media-lemmings/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></section>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lefty SPLC, Soros Foundations Build Coalition to Ban ‘Hate Speech’ Online</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2018 09:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Corinne Weaver</em></p>
<p>The anti-conservative hate group, Southern Poverty Law Center, wants to censor people it disagrees with and it’s asking the top social media companies to help.</p>
<p>On Thursday, October 25, the <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/10/24/splc-announces-policy-recommendations-social-media-internet-companies-fight-hate-online">liberal organization</a> announced that it had formed a coalition with five other groups to encourage the prohibition of so-called “hate speech” online. SPLC partnered with four <strong>George Soros</strong> funded organizations: the Center for American Progress, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/aly-nielsen/2017/08/29/soros-funded-org-falsely-labels-conservative-groups-white">Color of Change</a>, <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/joseph-rossell/2015/03/19/fcc-cites-groups-funded-soros-ford-foundations-206-times-internet">Free Press</a> and<a href="https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/alliance-for-justice/"> Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,</a> as well as the National Hispanic Media Coalition.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/11/lefty-splc-soros-foundations-build-coalition-to-ban-hate-speech-online/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Southern Poverty Law Center Is a Hate Group</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2018 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Josh Goldstein</em></p>
<p>Like many leftist organizations, the Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, started out with good intentions. It was founded in 1971 by <strong>Morris Dees</strong> and <strong>Joseph Levin</strong> and is headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama.  The Southern Poverty Law Center rightly condemned, as did conservatives such as the great <strong>William F. Buckley</strong> and <strong>Ronald Reagan</strong>, the American Nazi Party and the Democrat-affiliated Ku Klux Klan.</p>
<p>A favorite SPLC tactic was suing Klan affiliated organizations for their crimes and then distributing the money to the victims.  &#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/03/southern-poverty-law-center-is-a-hate-group/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CNN’s Hate Group List Smears Some Great Organizations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tom Gilson</em></p>
<p>CNN has just published a <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/17/us/hate-groups-us-map-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">map and listing</a> of “all the active hate groups where you live.” I’ve got serious problems with lists like this, but apparently CNN doesn’t. It seems to me that if they believe in “hate group” lists, they really ought to include themselves on it.</p>
<p>A list like this one, published days after Charlottesville, is, in theory, meant to warn Americans against groups that might carry similar violence into other cities.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/08/cnns-hate-group-list-smears-some-great-organizations/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ABC News Vilifies Everyday Americans with “Hate Group” Headline</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Monica Burke</em></p>
<p>[Last] week, an ABC News headline referred to <a href="https://www.adflegal.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Alliance Defending Freedom</a>, a Christian nonprofit committed to defending religious liberty in the legal system, as an “<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeff-sessions-addresses-anti-lgbt-hate-group-doj/story?id=48593488">anti-LGBT hate group</a>.” ABC reported on a speech delivered by Attorney General <strong>Jeff Sessions</strong> in the following manner:</p>
<blockquote><p>Sessions addressed members of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was designated an ‘anti-LGBT hate group’ by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2016, at the Summit on Religious Liberty at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, in Dana Point, California.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/abc-news-vilifies-everyday-americans-with-hate-group-headline/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jun 2017 09:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by John A. Sparks</em></p>
<p>U.S. Senators <strong>Chuck Schumer</strong> and <strong>Patrick Leahy</strong> <a href="http://fox17online.com/2017/01/31/schumer-says-gorsuch-isnt-in-mainstream/">claimed</a> that newly confirmed U.S. Supreme Court Justice <strong>Neil Gorsuch</strong> was not in the “<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/leahy-tells-gorsuch-originalism-remains-outside-mainstream-moderate">legal mainstream</a>.” They were referring to the “living Constitution” approach to constitutional interpretation. That interpretative approach, still thriving today and embraced by the liberal left, says that the U.S. Constitution should be a document that judges regard as one “<a href="http://www.law.uchicago.edu/alumni/magazine/fall10/strauss">that evolves, changes, over time, and adapts to new circumstances, without being formally amended</a>.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/the-new-conservative-legal-mainstream-and-why-the-left-is-worried/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Joshua Denton</em></p>
<p>In a move vigorously applauded by social conservatives and simultaneously denounced by same-sex “marriage” advocates, President Donald Trump has appointed <a href="http://www.heritage.org/staff/roger-severino">Roger Severino</a> to head the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Civil Rights.</p>
<p>Severino formerly served as the Director of the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society. As Director, his three main focuses where on religious liberty, marriage, and life issues.</p>
<p>His track record of defending religious liberty, natural marriage, and the sanctity of life go further back then his time at the Heritage Foundation.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/04/trump-picks-pro-life-heritage-foundation-alum-to-lead-hhs-civil-rights-office/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Evangelicals Most in Favor of Pastors Preaching Politics From Pulpit: Poll</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2017 11:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Brandon Showalter</em></p>
<p>In a Feb. 10 Morning Consult/Politico <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2017/02/10/evangelicals-supportive-letting-churches-engage-political-activity/" target="_blank">poll</a>, 47 percent of evangelicals said they support allowing religious groups to engage in political activity, whereas 34 percent do not. By contrast, 54 percent of Catholics and 69 percent of Jews oppose such participation by religious groups.</p>
<p>The survey also shows that 40 percent of evangelical voters believe that churches should be permitted to endorse political candidates, a higher figure than all other religious groups polled, while 41 percent said such endorsements should not be allowed.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/02/evangelicals-most-in-favor-of-pastors-preaching-politics-from-pulpit-poll/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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<p><em>Written by Anugrah Kumar</em></p>
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<p>Pastors across the country will protest Internal Revenue Service restrictions on them not to talk politics in the church as they observe the annual <a href="https://www.adflegal.org/issues/religious-freedom/church/key-issues/pulpit-freedom-sunday" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Pulpit Freedom Sunday</span></a>, days after the introduction of the Free Speech Fairness Act in the U.S. House to reinstate pastors&#8217; and churches&#8217; rights to speak freely.</p>
<p>&#8220;The IRS has no business acting as the speech police of any non-profit organization, as its many scandals over recent years have made clear,&#8221; said <strong>Erik Stanley</strong>, senior counsel of the Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom, which started Pulpit Freedom Sunday in 2008.</p></div>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/10/pastors-to-protest-irs-restrictions-on-speaking-about-politics/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Yes, Churches Can Engage in the Political Struggle to Protect Religious Liberty and Defend Judeo-Christian Morality</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 12:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by John Biver</em></p>
<p>Here are just a few of the many resources (articles and videos) available on the topic of church activities deemed “political,” as well as on the Johnson amendment. So few people know this due to the conservative failure in <a href="http://johnbiver.com/the-information-war-list/" target="_blank">the information war</a>.</p>
<p>Regardless of the Johnson amendment, however, two notes…</p>
<p>First, note this quote from <strong>Mat Staver</strong>, founder of <a href="https://www.lc.org/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Liberty Counsel</span></a> has observed:</p>
<blockquote><p>Pastors can preach on biblical, moral and social issues, such as natural marriage and abortion, can urge the congregation to register and vote, can overview the positions of the candidates, and may personally endorse candidates.</p></blockquote>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/09/yes-churches-can-engage-in-the-political-struggle-to-protect-religious-liberty-and-defend-judeo-christian-morality/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>LGBT Activist Attempts to Gain Christian’s Trust. Don’t Fall For It</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Mat Staver</em></p>
<p>It is not surprising that those seeking to advance the LGBT agenda would work through left-leaning organizations, but one billionaire who has his eye on millennials has begun partnering with Hobby Lobby and its Museum of the Bible.</p>
<div id="taboola-mobile-mid-article-thumbnails"><strong>Paul Singer</strong> has been targeting Republican candidates, lawmakers, and the Republican Party platform. Now, he is reaching out to Christian students on college campuses.</div>
<p>Singer has an elaborate funding and organizational scheme that appears to support Christians and gain their goodwill while at the same time working against them to advance his same-sex marriage and LGBT agenda.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/07/lgbt-activist-attempts-to-gain-christians-trust-dont-fall-for-it-2/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>At Religious Liberty Hearing, Democrats Unlikely Backers of Atlanta Fire Chief</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Kelsey Harkness</em></p>
<p>The story of the former Atlanta fire chief who was fired from his job after publishing a book that addressed marriage and sexuality from a biblical perspective took center stage at a hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill, with witnesses from both sides of the aisle voicing disapproval of the city’s decision to terminate the decorated public servant.</p>
<p>“I wish we had a bill to protect him,” former U.S. Representative<strong> Barney Frank</strong>, a Democrat who represented Massachusetts’ 4th District, said of Chief <strong>Kelvin Cochran</strong>.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/07/at-religious-liberty-hearing-democrats-unlikely-backers-of-atlanta-fire-chief/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Obamacrats Go for More While the Clock Is Ticking</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p><strong>Barack Obama</strong> has about nine months left as president, and his administration is working overtime to abuse current regulatory machinery and create new rules that will “transform” America beyond recognition without any say by Congress.</p>
<p>“Nearly 4,000 regulations are squirming their way through the federal bureaucracy in the last year of Barack Obama’s presidency,” Politico <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.politico.com/agenda/agenda/story/2016/1/obama-regulations-2016" target="_blank">reported</a></span> in January, “many costing industry more than $100 million — in a mad dash by the White House to push through government actions affecting everything from furnaces to gun sales to Guantánamo.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/04/obamacrats-go-for-more-while-the-clock-is-ticking/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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